Medicated salt rock.



UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

CHARLES 0. GREEN, WILLIAMP. WIOKLINE, AND JAMES B. EATON, oF

. CENTERPOINT, TEXAS.

M EDIoATED. SALT ROCK.

SPEGIFIGATION'formingpart-of Letters Patent No. 672,672, dated April 23, 1901.

' Application filed July 20,1900. Serial No. 24,334.. on specimens.)

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES -O. GREEN,

WILLIAM P. WIoKLrNE, and JAMES B. EATON,

' keeping cattle, horses, and other live stock in good condition, to serve as a tonic and bloodpurifier-,also to expel worms from the stomach and intestines, and toeradicate ticks and The formula for our improved medicatedy cent.; total,100 per cent.

it understood, however, that the above-stated vermin.

Other purposes of the invention will appear from the following description of the manner of making and using the compound.

salt rock is as follows Salt, (sodium chlorid,) 54.9375 per cent.;cement, 40 per cent.; nitrate of potash, .625 per cent. santonin, .0625 per cent.; powdered nux vomica, .625 per cent.; powdered gentian, .625 per cent.; sulfate of iron, .625 per cent.; sulfur, 2.5 per We would have rock form, the'cement serving as a hinder or adhesive agent. J The chlorid of sodium also aids to some-extent in agglutinating the compound, and the large proportion of this salt renders the rock attractive to stbck and furnishes a valuable aid to digestion. Referring to the other ingredients of the compound, the nitrate of potash is diuretic and cooling to the blood. Sautonin', is a valuable and reliable vermicide. The nux vomica, gentian, and iron are excellent tonics. They assist digestion and aid in purifying the blood.

Sulfur is an alterative, germicide, and bloodpurifier.

Our compound above described is put up in blocks or cakes of suitable dimensions and weight for convenient use in the feed-box or elsewhere-say in two, five, ten, and twenty pound blocks, as may be preferred. The rock may be kept in the animals feed-box, or it may be conveniently placed where they have heretofore salted oraround their drinkingplaces or Where they generally congregate when resting.

The large proportion of salt contained in this medicated salt rock will induce stock to lick it freely, and the medicinal properties of the other ingredients are so graduated that when the animal has taken what salt is desired it has at the same time received into the system enough medicine to exert a proper action until more salt is needed. When thus employed, it purifies the blood, aids diges tion, eradicates worms, keeps 01f ticks, and maintains the stock in a generally healthy condition. Besides, it furnishes all the salt ordinarily required and gives the most economical and satisfactory results in the care of live stock.

What we claim as our invention is The herein-described medicated salt cake- CHARLES o. GREEN. WILLIAM P. WICKLINE. JAMES B. EATON,

Witnesses to signatures of Charles 0. Green and William P. Wickline:

J BEUEE, .W. A. WALKER. Witnesses to signature of James B. Eaton:

B. W. SHAW, W. E. E. FIELDING. 

